cangaceiro

From Portuguese cangaceiro.

cangaceiro (plural cangaceiros)

1. (now chiefly historical) A type of nomadic bandit in Brazil.
   • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 68:

     Cangaceiros and flying brigades alike ate up the provisions of the townspeople of Custódia, got drunk on their cane brandy, and tried to rape their women.

   • 1988, Jorge Amado, Gregory Rabassa, transl., Captains of the Sands, Penguin, published 2013, page 58:

     Dry Gulch looks like a cangaceiro with his leather hat and crossed cartridge belts.

   • 2010, Darlene J. Sadlier, Brazil Imagined, page 260:

     That night Deraldo has a dream in which, dressed as a cangaceiro, he stands on a street corner and challenges passersby, who point and laugh at him.

From cangaço +‎ -eiro.[1]

cangaceiro m (plural cangaceiros)

1. (Brazil) bandit, cangaceiro